scholarly journals Molecular Epidemiology of Bordetella pertussis Strains Isolated in Vietnam During 2015–2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s319-s320
Author(s):  
Anh H. V. Nguyen ◽  
Hoan T. Pham ◽  
Cao Huu Nghia
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Epidemiology ◽  
Bordetella Pertussis ◽  
Antigenic Determinant ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Minimum Spanning Tree ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Evolutionary Relationship ◽  
Housekeeping Genes ◽  
Southern Vietnam ◽  
Reference Sequences

Background: Whooping cough is a serious respiratory illness in infants caused by Bordetella pertussis. In spite of the vaccination program, the incidence rates of whooping cough per 100,000 population in Vietnam increased from 0.33 in 2015 to 0.58 in 2017. If this represents a pertussis resurgence, contributors may include pathogen adaptation, the spread of specific variants, vaccine failure, and failure to effectively treat cases and contacts. There has been little research in Vietnam on B. pertussis strains. Therefore, we investigated the molecular epidemiology of circulating B. pertussis strains in Southern Vietnam by applying multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for 7 housekeeping genes and 4 antigenic determinant genes as components in the acellular vaccine including prn, ptxP, ptxS1, and fim3. Methods: DNA was extracted from 15 isolates collected from 263 case patients during 2015–2017 and was subject to MLST using primers and cycling conditions from the Bordetella pubMLST website (www.Pubmlst.org/Bordetella/). The products were analyzed using BioEdit version 7.2.5 software and then were aligned and compared to reference sequences of each genotype in the database. The evolutionary relationship among sequence types (STs) from housekeeping genes was performed as a minimum spanning tree via the goeBURST algorithm, whereas the correlation of different variants from 4 antigenic determinant genes was built up and clarified with phylogenetic trees based on the UPGMA method by MEGA 7 program. Results: The 15 isolates were all classified as ST2 (100%) by MLST of housekeeping genes, and they belonged to a common global clonal group (Fig. 1). Sequencing of antigenic determinant genes prn2 – ptxP3 – ptxS1-1 – fim3-1 determined that all were identical to each another and the reference sequences (Fig. 2). Conclusions:B. pertussis isolates circulating in Southern Vietnam appeared to be the same as the common global strain. Few isolates were available for testing; therefore, continued surveillance is important to confirm these findings and to monitor population changes over time.Funding: NoneDisclosures: None

scholarly journals Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis of Dutch Bordetella pertussis Strains Reveals Rapid Genetic Changes with Clonal Expansion during the Late 1990s

2004 ◽  
Vol 186 (16) ◽  
pp. 5496-5505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo M. Schouls ◽  
Han G. J. van der Heide ◽  
Luc Vauterin ◽  
Paul Vauterin ◽  
Frits R. Mooi
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Tandem Repeat ◽  
Bordetella Pertussis ◽  
Minimum Spanning Tree ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Variable Number Tandem Repeat ◽  
Clonal Expansion ◽  
Variable Number ◽  
Multiple Locus ◽  
Repeat Analysis

ABSTRACT Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, has remained endemic in The Netherlands despite extensive nationwide vaccination since 1953. In the 1990s, several epidemic periods have resulted in many cases of pertussis. We have proposed that strain variation has played a major role in the upsurges of this disease in The Netherlands. Therefore, molecular characterization of strains is important in identifying the causes of pertussis epidemiology. For this reason, we have developed a multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) typing system for B. pertussis. By combining the MLVA profile with the allelic profile based on multiple-antigen sequence typing, we were able to further differentiate strains. The relationships between the various genotypes were visualized by constructing a minimum spanning tree. MLVA of Dutch strains of B. pertussis revealed that the genotypes of the strains isolated in the prevaccination period were diverse and clearly distinct from the strains isolated in the 1990s. Furthermore, there was a decrease in diversity in the strains from the late 1990s, with a remarkable clonal expansion that coincided with the epidemic periods. Using this genotyping, we have been able to show that B. pertussis is much more dynamic than expected.

scholarly journals Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine combined with Bordetella parapertussis vaccine

1962 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neda Köhler-Kubelka
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Examination ◽  
Pertussis Vaccine ◽  
Bordetella Pertussis ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Production Test ◽  
Post Vaccination ◽  
Bordetella Parapertussis ◽  
Cross Reactions ◽  
Combined Vaccine

Investigations carried out to ascertain the ability of various strains of Bordetella pertussis and B. parapertussis to produce agglutinins have shown that the agglutinin response is considerably greater with B. parapertussis.Children inoculated with a combined vaccine in which the parapertussis element contained B. parapertussis in only one-twelfth of the concentration of B. pertussis in the pertussis element showed agglutinins in their sera in titres well above 1:300 for both organisms. There were no cross-reactions and the serological responses were specific throughout. The vaccine used was the standard diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) prophylactic to which had been added a vaccine prepared from recently isolated strains of B. parapertussis.Agglutinin titres of both whooping cough components with the combined vaccine were somewhat lower in mice than was the case when monovalent vaccines were used, but they were considered to be satisfactory.It is suggested that the agglutination production test in mice could be used for the assessment of protective power of B. parapertussis vaccines against infection.I wish to thank Dr Ikić, director of the Institute of Immunology, Zagreb, who enabled me to perform all these examinations, further to Dr B. Mravunac and Dr Z. Radanov for having carried out vaccination in children and for the clinical examination of post vaccination reactions.

scholarly journals Bordetella pertussis Lipid A Glucosamine Modification Confers Resistance to Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides and Increases Resistance to Outer Membrane Perturbation

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 4931-4934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nita R. Shah ◽  
Robert E. W. Hancock ◽  
Rachel C. Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Antimicrobial Peptides ◽  
Outer Membrane ◽  
Bordetella Pertussis ◽  
Lipid A ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Human Immune System ◽  
Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Membrane Perturbation

ABSTRACTBordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, has many strategies for evading the human immune system. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an important Gram-negative bacterial surface structure that activates the immune system via Toll-like receptor 4 and enables susceptibility to cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs). We show modification of the lipid A region of LPS with glucosamine increased resistance to numerous CAMPs, including LL-37. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this glucosamine modification increased resistance to outer membrane perturbation.

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (TREM-1) contributes to Bordetella pertussis inflammatory pathology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danisha Gallop ◽  
Karen Scanlon ◽  
Jeremy Ardanuy ◽  
Alexander B. Sigalov ◽  
Nicholas H. Carbonetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bordetella Pertussis ◽  
Inflammatory Responses ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Pulmonary Inflammation ◽  
Myeloid Cells ◽  
Cell Surface Receptor ◽  
Bacterial Burden ◽  
Emerging Pathogens ◽  
Pertussis Infection ◽  
Bacterial Control

Whooping cough (pertussis) is a severe pulmonary infectious disease caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis . Pertussis infects an estimated 24 million people annually, resulting in >150,000 deaths. The NIH placed pertussis on the list of emerging pathogens in 2015. Antibiotics are ineffective unless administered before the onset of the disease characteristic cough. Therefore, there is an urgent need for novel pertussis therapeutics. We have shown that sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor (S1PR) agonists reduce pertussis inflammation, without increasing bacterial burden. Transcriptomic studies were performed to identify this mechanism and allow for the development of pertussis therapeutics which specifically target problematic inflammation without sacrificing bacterial control. These data suggested a role for triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (TREM-1). TREM-1 cell surface receptor functions as an amplifier of inflammatory responses. Expression of TREM-1 is increased in response to bacterial infection of mucosal surfaces. In mice, B. pertussis infection results in TLR9-dependent increased expression of TREM-1 and its associated cytokines. Interestingly, S1PR agonists dampen pulmonary inflammation and TREM-1 expression. Mice challenged intranasally with B. pertussis and treated with ligand-dependent (LP17) and ligand-independent (GF9) TREM-1 inhibitors showed no differences in bacterial burden and significantly reduced TNF-α and CCL-2 expression compared to controls. Mice receiving TREM-1 inhibitors showed reduced pulmonary inflammation compared to controls indicating that TREM-1 promotes inflammatory pathology, but not bacterial control, during pertussis infection. This implicates TREM-1 as a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of pertussis.

scholarly journals Genomic surveillance and improved molecular typing of Bordetella pertussis using wgMLST

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Weigand ◽  
Yanhui Peng ◽  
Hannes Pouseele ◽  
Dane Kania ◽  
Katherine E. Bowden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bordetella Pertussis ◽  
Molecular Typing ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Iterative Refinement ◽  
Whole Genome ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Retrospective Comparison ◽  
Population Structures ◽  
Reference Quality

ABSTRACTMulti-Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) provides allele-based characterization of bacterial pathogens in a standardized framework. However, current MLST schemes for Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, seldom reveal diversity among the small number of gene targets and thereby fail to delineate population structure. To improve discriminatory power of allele-based molecular typing of B. pertussis, we have developed a whole-genome MLST (wgMLST) scheme from 214 reference-quality genome assemblies. Iterative refinement and allele curation resulted in a scheme of 3,506 coding sequences and covering 81.4% of the B. pertussis genome. This wgMLST scheme was further evaluated with data from a convenience sample of 2,389 B. pertussis isolates sequenced on Illumina instruments, including isolates from known outbreaks and epidemics previously characterized by existing molecular assays, as well as replicates collected from individual patients. wgMLST demonstrated concordance with whole-genome single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) profiles, accurately resolved outbreak and sporadic cases in a retrospective comparison, and clustered replicate isolates collected from individual patients during diagnostic confirmation. Additionally, a re-analysis of isolates from two statewide epidemics using wgMLST reconstructed the population structures of circulating strains with increased resolution, revealing new clusters of related cases. Comparison with an existing core-genome (cgMLST) scheme highlights the genomic stability of this bacterium and forms the initial foundation for necessary standardization. These results demonstrate the utility of wgMLST for improving B. pertussis characterization and genomic surveillance during the current pertussis disease resurgence.

scholarly journals Localization of regions of a Bordetella pertussis autotransporter, Vag8, interacting with C1 inhibitor

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoki Onoda ◽  
Yukihiro Hiramatsu ◽  
Shihono Teruya ◽  
Koichiro Suzuki ◽  
Yasuhiko Horiguchi
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Bordetella Pertussis ◽  
Serine Proteases ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Amino Acid Residues ◽  
C1 Inhibitor ◽  
Passenger Domain ◽  
Complement Regulator ◽  
Function Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of

AbstractBordetella pertussis is the causative agent of pertussis (whooping cough), a contagious respiratory disease that has recently seen a resurgence despite high vaccination coverage, necessitating improvement of current pertussis vaccines. An autotransporter of B. pertussis, virulence-associated gene 8 (Vag8), has been proposed as an additional component to improve pertussis vaccines. Vag8 is known to play a role in evasion of the complement system and activation of the contact system by inactivating the complement regulating factor, C1 inhibitor (C1 Inh), which inhibits serine proteases, such as plasma kallikrein (PK). However, the nature of the molecular interaction between Vag8 and C1 Inh remains to be determined. In the present study, we attempted to determine the minimum region of Vag8 that interacts with C1 Inh by examining the differently–truncated Vag8 derivatives for the ability to bind and inactivate C1 Inh. The region of Vag8 from amino–acid residues 102 to 548 was found to bind C1 Inh and cancel its inhibitory action on the protease activity of PK at the same level as a Vag8 fragment from amino–acid residues 52 to 648 covering the passenger domain, which carries its extracellular function. In contrast, the truncated Vag8 containing amino–acid residues 102 – 479 or 202 – 648 barely interacted with C1 Inh. These results indicated that the two separate regions of amino–acid residues 102 – 202 and 479 – 548 are likely required for the interaction with C1 Inh.ImportancePertussis is currently reemerging worldwide, and is still one of the greatest disease burdens in infants. B. pertussis produces a number of virulence factors, including toxins, adhesins, and autotransporters. One of the autotransporters, Vag8, which binds and inactivates the complement regulator C1 Inh, is considered to contribute to the establishment of B. pertussis infection. However, the nature of the interaction between Vag8 and C1 Inh remains to be explored. In this study, we narrowed down the region of Vag8 that interacts with C1 Inh and demonstrated that at least two separate regions of Vag8 are necessary for the interaction with C1 Inh. Our results provide insight into the structure–function relationship of the Vag8 molecule and information to determine its potential role in the pathogenesis of B. pertussis.

scholarly journals Yersinia nurmii sp. nov.

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 2368-2372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Murros-Kontiainen ◽  
Maria Fredriksson-Ahomaa ◽  
Hannu Korkeala ◽  
Per Johansson ◽  
Riitta Rahkila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
16S Rrna Gene ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Housekeeping Genes ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Yersinia Ruckeri ◽  
Phenotypic Properties ◽  
Broiler Meat ◽  
Dna Reassociation ◽  
The 16S Rrna Gene

This study was set up to identify three Gram-negative, rod-shaped strains originating from broiler meat packaged under a modified atmosphere. A polyphasic taxonomic approach, including multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of five genes (16S rRNA, glnA, gyrB, recA and HSP60), DNA–DNA reassociation between the closest phylogenetic neighbours and determination of relevant phenotypic properties, was applied. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequences grouped these strains together and within the genus Yersinia. MLSA of the 16S rRNA gene and four housekeeping genes showed that the strains formed a monophyletic group separate from other Yersinia species in all phylogenetic trees constructed. The strains had a phenotypic profile different from those of other representatives of the genus Yersinia, but most similar to that of Yersinia ruckeri. Typical virulence markers for pathogenic Yersinia were not detected. Based on phylogenetic, phenotypic and DNA–DNA reassociation data, a novel species, Yersinia nurmii sp. nov., is proposed for the isolated strains. The type strain is APN3a-cT ( = DSM 22296T  = LMG 25213T).

Calcium-dependent disorder-to-order transitions are central to the secretion and folding of the CyaA toxin of Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough

Toxicon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darragh P. O'Brien ◽  
Ana Cristina Sotomayor Perez ◽  
Johanna Karst ◽  
Sara E. Cannella ◽  
Véronique Yvette Ntsogo Enguéné ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Causative Agent ◽  
Bordetella Pertussis ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Calcium Dependent

Could this be whooping cough?

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 639-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Nee ◽  
Elaine Weir ◽  
Madhur Vardhan ◽  
Ankita Vaidya
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Clinical Features ◽  
Respiratory Infection ◽  
Bordetella Pertussis ◽  
Whooping Cough ◽  
Pertussis Infection ◽  
Respiratory Disorders ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Serious Disease

Whooping cough is a notifiable bacterial respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis. It may produce serious disease, especially in immunocompromised individuals and very young children. The number of reported cases increases in the winter months and the incidence peaks every 4–5 years. However, this periodicity is variable and is inconsistent between different geographical regions. Bordetella pertussis infection (BPI) may be underdiagnosed because of its seasonality and the fact that clinical features may be indistinguishable from other respiratory disorders in the paediatric ED setting. Treatment with antibiotics reduces the period of infectivity but may not shorten the illness. This review discusses the epidemiology of the disease, its clinical features, diagnosis, treatment and the disposition of patients with BPI.

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